Surgery on Right Ear

Evan's surgery went good. Well it was very interesting too.

As you probably know from previous posts, Evan has always had extreemly narrow ear canals and failed the hearing tests in the hospital when he was born. The doctors could never even see his ear drum.

When the doctor did the surgery on his left ear last year, it turned out that a bone was covering 2/3 of the canal. We just got home from his surgery on his right ear and he didn't have an ear drum (at least it wasn't at al as expected). We once again left the doctor stumped. Leave it to Evan to do that, lol.

I don't really know or understand all of this, just that the doctor said that the ear canal didn't lead to the ear drum, it was just closed in. It was a lengthy procedure, in which he had to graft some skin from behind Evan's ear to construct the ear drum (? not sure if I'm explaining this right) and then graft some skin from Evan's leg to cover the rest of the ear. He's home and doing better now, but it's been a long day. We had to be there to register at 7:30 this morning. We were the first there and the last to leave, lol.

It's truly amaizing what the medical world can do. The doctor is confidant that Evan will be able to hear in 2 weeks when the gauze comes out.

So, we are home now and doing well. After lots of nasea, vomiting, and grogginess, Evan sat up in bed and said "I'm not sick anymore", then he was instantly ready to leave the hospital. A cute note: after the surgery, when the nurse asked him about the pain, he pointed to the happy face and said "I'm happy" although he was grimacing and we could tell he was in pain. Lol, my high-tolerance kid who doesn't want pain meds.